First Salmon Poaching Case Reported in Newly Reopened Klamath River Habitat

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The return of Chinook salmon to the upper Klamath River Basin has been one of Northern California’s biggest conservation success stories—but it didn’t take long for illegal activity to follow.

For the second year in a row, thousands of Chinook salmon have migrated into tributaries above the former PacifiCorp dam sites. California Trout estimates roughly 10,000 adult salmon moved upstream this fall into habitat that had been blocked for more than a century. That recovery, however, was quickly marred by the first documented case of salmon poaching in the newly reopened waters.

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